People like Neale clearly haven't given the remotest thought as to what Brexit actually means. they don't give a damn about the nuts and bolts of it (trade deals, import duties, customs unions, legislative reform, international relations ...). To these people Brexit is some kind of synonym for "promised land", so they don't give a damn whether the Brexit they get is one that has been negotiated exclusively for the benefit of the Tory party and their backers (bankers, private health corporations, landed gentry and buy-to-let slumlords ...) or one that is enforced by a brutal military dictatorship.

As long as people like Neale get their beloved Brexit it doesn't matter to them what has to be sacrificed to achieve it. They'd happily scrap the independence of the judiciary, free speech, parliamentary sovereignty, even parliament itself, just to get what they want.

I'm pretty sure most Remain voters are getting increasingly concerned about how things have gone so bonkers that the right-wing press are busy redefining "democracy" to mean "totalitarian dictatorship" and savagely attacking the independence of the judiciary. But then I'm also sure that there must be quite a significant number of Brexit voters who thought the UK would be better off outside the EU, but who aren't exactly enamoured by the idea of their fellow Brexiters trying to provoke a military coup/deadly civil war to achieve it.

I'm pretty sure that no matter which way we voted in the EU referendum, anyone with a shred of sanity has to be horrified at the idea of a Brexiter military coup d'etat. Surely even the most staunch Brexiter has to admit that their fellow Brexiters calling for the military to overthrow the government in the name of "democracy" is unacceptable lunacy?

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